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Every so often it would be useful to use my 701c as an external modem - by this I mean, I'd like to plug another computer into the 701c, connect the 701c to a phone line, and then run a comms program on the other computer. To do this I assume that I have to (1) disconnect the second (non-modem) serial port from the mouse/trackpoint and infrared devices, and (2) write a short program to pass characters back and forth between com1 and com2. Presumably I can do (1) in the <fn>-1 menus. I'm a little worried about (2), since the commercial communications programs seem to take stronger control of the ports than just polling the interrupt levels. This would imply that the tiny program I have in mind won't be reliable at high speeds. Can anyone give me any advice here? Has anyone done what I'm trying to do? Best yet, is there already software out there (perhaps a DOS port-redirection command I don't know about) that will do this? Thanks in advance, - David (ross@math.hawaii.edu)